There is no excuse

It's no secret that I am against war as a problem solving solution. That puts me in a position of being anti-military....which I would say is an accurate assumption. I believe much too much money is spent on military endeavors around the world but I accept the current level of our human evolution and realize that while in the relatively near future (100 - 200 years) problems will be solved with compromise and diplomacy....currently asses need to be kicked from time to time. I choose not to be part of that ass-kicking but I understand that sometimes when training the puppy it needs to have its nose rubbed in the poop. Homo-sapien evolution is not that far along and while we have truly invented some cool toys we have yet to expand the extra senses that are available to our species.

Being anti-military does not mean I am anti-people who participate in the process. Obviously the military is an important employer for millions of people and in our current retro evolutionary stage there are times when power must be exerted....and protection must be provided.

WHAT I FIND TOTALLY INTOLERABLE IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS EVEN ONE HOMELESS VETERAN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

In Santa Monica we have a council member named Bobby Shriver who is fighting to have the Veterans Administration in West Los Angeles use their empty buildings to shelter homeless vets. The fact that a vet can't simply walk up to a VA building, anywhere in the US, and find a place to sleep anytime that want is totally unacceptable!

When a soldier loses his life in combat we always hear how a family should be extremely proud that their child gave their life for our country.

Why should it be any different throughout the entire life of any veteran who signed the papers to be part of the military complex?

"TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN" should be the optimum phrase.

It's appalling how much money we spend on military endeavors throughout the world.

IT'S DISGUSTING THAT ANY PERSON WHO JOINED THE MILITARY SHOULD EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN SLEEP AND USE A BATHROOM.

The real question is......HOW MANY ARE THERE?

It shouldn't be that hard to find out.

Between the closed military bases and the Veterans Administration buildings every single one of those homeless vets should be immediately housed.

"TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN"

THAT PHRASE SHOULD BE USED ON EVERY RECRUITING ADVERTISEMENT.

LET EVERY YOUNG PERSON KNOW THAT IF THEY DO JOIN THE MILITARY THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING HOMELESS.

The amount of money that will be saved by reducing our military actions around the globe can be used to solve this stupid problem.

And by not taking care of the people who risked their lives to join the military....the military proves once again that they are most definitely at a lower level of the human evolutionary chain.

WE NEED THEIR STUPID TOYS AND BAD ASS ATTITUDES BECAUSE WE ARE ONLY ABOUT 100,000 YEARS OLD....AND WE'VE ONLY BEEN RECORDING OUR DEVELOPMENT FOR ABOUT 25,000 YEARS AND WE'VE ONLY BEEN ABLE TO CREATE MULTIPLE COPIES SINCE AROUND 1439.

And although that's an explanation for our general stupidity, it is no excuse for allowing a member of the armed forces to sleep under a stack of newspapers.

In my advanced evolutionary future reality of the human species....no one will be homeless but that's an entirely different story.

THE PROBLEM OF HOMELESS VETS NEEDS TO BE FIXED TODAY.

I'm going to call the President and the Vice-President....but I need their cell phone numbers......does anyone have those numbers?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

I expected more and that makes me angrier than before

Under GW's watch from 2001 to 2009 I never expected much, so I wasn't that disappointed by the actions and the behavior....and thus I was never pissed off during those eight years when the White House was being occupied by the GOP. Of course there were many times I was nervous that somebody in the White House could say such goofy things, but now looking back I realize that he never made me angry. Constantly questioning intelligence quota's to be sure....but never really angry.

I voted for Barack Obama because I thought that certain PROGRAMS would be adjusted.

PROGRAMS consist of global military action, corporation favoritism, tax loop holes for the wealthy and corporations and environmental issues. I never really thought Universal Health Care would take hold so I didn't consider that a viable PROGRAM. I'm not convinced that mandating health care can withstand the road blocks which will be established by the courts. In fact, I anticipate the Supreme Court will end up ruling against mandated health care.

President Obama has had two great opportunities in the last few months to reassure his voters ( 2008 and 2012) that he brought a different agenda to the party. The first being a response to Japan's horrible disaster and the second being the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

First: After the Japanese Nuclear problem he should have come out and stated unequivocally that Nuclear Power was not an option for the United States and the natural renewable forms of energy; wind, solar and geothermal, would be the primary focus of our energy program.

Second: The day after Bin Laden was killed he should have announced that our mission in Afghanistan was over and troop withdrawal would begin immediately. That was our mission wasn't it.....to capture or kill the man responsible for 9/11? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

ANY TYPE OF DEMOCRATIC NATION BUILDING THAT MIGHT BE ON THE AGENDA FOR AFGHANISTAN IS NOT A RATIONAL OPTION! IT'S A TRIBAL MENTALITY AND WITHOUT AN EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE THERE IS NO CHANCE IN HELL FOR CONVERTING THOSE PEOPLE TO A DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT. TRYING TO HALT THE TALIBAN IS FUTILE BECAUSE THERE ARE NUMEROUS FACTIONS OF THAT SPECIFIC ISLAMIC MILITIA THAT CANNOT AGREE WITH ONE ANOTHER....SO ANY TYPE OF HARMONY WITH AN OUTSIDE INFLUENCE IS.....NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.

MAYBE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE CAN GET EVERYBODY TO SIT DOWN AND REALIZE THAT 8TH CENTURY MORALITY AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS....DO NOT BELONG IN THE 21ST CENTURY......BUT I DON'T THINK I KNOW ANYBODY WHO CAN DO THAT WITHOUT HAVING A SABRE STUCK UP THEIR ASS.

The only positive thing to say about the Taliban is that......they aren't Al-qaeda....and they seem to be focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan whereas Al-qaeda seems hell bent on fucking with everybody on the planet.

I'm not unaware of the fact that I started talking about President Obama and now I'm ranting on about the Taliban and Al-qaeda.

This might all be related to the fact that I'm extremely upset with BO's focus and his lack of alternative behavior patterns......patterns that seem to parallel the previous administration.

Ron Paul is the only guy who seems to be telling America to wake up and stop nation building in places where it can't happen.

I'm not kidding when I say that Ralph Nader and Ron Paul need to join forces for the 2012 election. Maybe they could just handle the debates and create the questions.

I really don't want to hear Barack make promises that he has no intention of keeping and I REALLY don't want to hear some GOP goofball talk about what he will do different and how he or she will bring America back to the golden age of Reaganomics.

Maybe I'll just go into the mountains for the next 18 months and come back after the dust settles....or maybe I'll just work on a few of my paintings and pretend I went to the mountains.

Whatever I choose to do.....I'm a little upset with the result of my 2008 vote....and I really didn't see that happening.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

What would they think?

I've lived on the corner of Washington and Lincoln since 1986 and yesterday I read an article in the LA TIMES that got me wondering what those two American Icons would think of the United States selling $46 BILLION worth of military hardware to FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS....in one year. That follows the $31.6 BILLION that the US sold in 2010.

The article by W.J. Hennigan brought up some very curious statistics. Mr. Hennigan wasn't able to call bullsh.t but it's quite often that I find myself as the one who needs to do that much needed job.

In October of last year Saudi Arabia ordered $60 BILLION (multiyear deal)of weapons from the following "great" American companies; Boeing, Raytheon and Sikorsky. The order from Raytheon focused on 2,000 pound bunker-busting bombs and from Boeing they needed some F-15 fighter jets.

Who exactly is Saudi Arabia's arch enemy? I remember that 17 of the 19 9/11 terrorists were nationalized citizens of Saudi Arabia....so MAYBE we are them????????

Egypt apparently is one of the largest customers for United States weaponry. It turns out that our toys are being used in Egypt, Baharin and Tunsia to squelch the pro-democracy protesters.

Pakistan, India and Indonesia were on a blacklist along with China and Iran, but recently were taken off of that list. If we sell weapons to Pakistan it really proves that we have lost touch with reality.

President Obama's marketing plan for weapons is making George W. Bush look like a pacifist.

It turns out that one of the major justifications for selling death toys to foreign governments is that it helps with the unemployment problem.

If you are BFF's with the US you get an even better deal. We give you the money to buy our weapons. Israel got $2.78 BILLION in aid from us...to spend on arms.

I HONESTLY FELT THAT WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS ELECTED THAT WE WOULD BE MOVING TOWARD A NON-MILITARY GLOBAL APPROACH TO SOLVING PROBLEMS. I DON'T REMEMBER VOTING FOR A F..KING FIVE STAR GENERAL.

THE "ENTIRE" PLANET IS QUICKLY BECOMING A WELL ARMED GLOBE and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight.

Why do I have a feeling that Canada doesn't participate in this deadly game?

The United States, China, Russia, Great Britain and France seem to be spiraling out of control toward who can win the weapons manufacturing award. The United States is currently the big kahuna but those other boys are busting their butts to catch up.

Is there no global vocal advocate who rejects this military consciousness???????

At this point I'd take anyone with mass appeal.....maybe Justin Beiber or Lady Gaga. Does anyone have their cell phone numbers?

Obviously politicians are part of the problem and religious leaders seem to be having their own issues....sport stars think it's all a game and my voice is limited to a very small area....on the corner of Washington and Lincoln.

I can't get anyone to even buy my artwork so there's not much chance I'll be able to alter the global weapons craze that obviously appears to be the main course on every countries plate.

Maybe I'll go to the Paris Air Show next week and order some drones and some F-15's.

INSANITY!!!!!!!!!

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Bundled after long debate

We are all being presented with the same dilemma.....bundle our telephone, Internet and TV connections and save money. The three major players appear to be Verizon, Time Warner and AT&T. I have not been approached by AT&T because of logistics in my immediate area....even though you would think Santa Monica could not be considered rural by any stretch of the imagination. Time Warner and Verizon have sent monthly flyer's regarding their bundle packages. Verizon's service, FIOS, was not available north of Wilshire for almost two years while they laid the foundation of their network.

Last week I finally made the decision and selected FIOS to handle my various connection and entertainment distractions. Anything that takes me away from my art is a distraction, but also a necessary part of staying informed and somewhat social. FIOS was installed in about two hours and now I am saving almost $100 a month.

The best part of the decision is that I now have a NEW television experience. The remote is new and the format of programing is new and while I still haven't entered the flat screen world I now have new channels and different ways of interacting with the boob tube.

I highly recommend when making your decision to bundle (and you will eventually do it if you haven't already) that you wheel and deal until you get everything you want. There are no term contracts and if they try to make you sign something or pay for the installation then you are not being due diligent. The more you ask for the more you will get. I didn't ask for a two year price on the promotion but I should have.

My Internet speed is faster with FIOS then it was with Time Warner and I was always under the impression that Time Warner's Roadrunner connection was one of the fastest methods other than T1 connections. Then I realized that FIOS stands for Fiber Optic Service and.......duh! Light is usually faster than MOST EVERYTHING and that's what fiber optic means.....transmitting information by eletromagnetic carrier waves through the optical fibers.

The two year delay in my area of Santa Monica was simply due to the time it took to lay the fiber optic cable. The odd part is that when they did the installation they used the Time Warner cable that was already here. Obviously outside of my building is a different connection but I was told that Time Warner and Verizon use each other's cable whenever necessary. I'm not sure how the fiber optics work with existing cable but it is working quite nicely. Of course I'm going to learn more about it, but for now it is what it is and I can see cable jockeying being a problem in the future....but for now they seem to be sharing.

One of the things about Time Warner that always bothered me is that promotions for new customers were constantly arriving in my mail and I saw that if I wanted a better deal on my cable it would behove me to not be an existing customer. It actually doesn't make any sense not to offer your customers an occasional deal just to keep them happy. I was a Time Warner customer since they took over Aldephia and now I'm not.

As soon as AT&T gets their U-Verse service up and running in my neighborhood maybe I'll give them a try. I will use FIOS for a year because that's how long I get free HBO. I will be interested to see what their price will be after the year promotion is up. At that time maybe Time Warner will be offering free dinners and Dodger tickets.

For now I'm bundled and feeling warm and cozy with FIOS.

Is anything else going on in the world?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

what's the chatter about the matter?

At the CERN project scientists have managed to trap ANTIMATTER for 17 minutes. The previous record was 0.2 of a second.

Attempting to understand what happened when the universe was created 14 billion years ago is the motivating force behind the Large Hadron Collider project which sits 575 feet underground near Geneva, Switzerland.

Apparently Matter and Antimatter were created equally when the Big Bang took place....but locating the antimatter has proved to be a challenge. "The theory" says that Antimatter could have been annihilated when it contacted Matter but if there were equal amounts then there would be no more universe.

THE TRAP works when a anti proton is combined with a positron produced by radioactive disintegration to produce slowly moving anti hydrogen atoms....which then can be trapped. The problem seems to be the interaction with gravity. The anti atoms need to be cooled to a temperature less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

That initial vibration of matter and antimatter meeting for the first time and starting a chain reaction that led to this moment.....right now......is the reason the LHC was built, at a cost of MULTIPLE BILLIONS of dollars. The physicists will not be happy until they hear a voice that says....

"I'm hiding antimatter in a non-physical reality space and you can't touch it until you change realities....or learn to build machines using only antimatter materials....and that's going to cost a lot more than multiple billions of dollars."

BOO!

So much to learn.....and we only have eternity to figure it out.....

if we just had a little more time........

MIchael Timothy McAlevey

No one does it like Woody

I've been a bit "unmotivated" recently and although it might be related to a few physical issues, even though that never seemed to bother me before, I seriously needed something to spark my wires or tip my scales or float my boat.....anything to get me stimulated.

Today I went to a matinee of Woody Allen's new movie "Midnight in Paris" and it was exactly what the doctor ordered....right after the antibiotics.

I'm always amazed when I read about the gross box-office results of a Woody Allen film and every time I say the same thing..............How can people not be seeing his movies?

Not only does he write with style and creativity.....he always manages to create something that no one has ever done and bring up issues that always seem to be left unsaid by regular film makers. This film is one of the greats in his long and industrious career and the best thing I thought when it was over was....please don't be over.....give us another hour....take us further into the time warp......

This film also reinforces my opinion that Marion Cotillard is in a class all by herself. It's not just the face....it's her ability to capture the screen as in the days of Garbo, Grant, Stewart and Hepburn. You can't wait to see her again and Mr. Konigsberg created a role which allows her to mesmerize our senses whenever she she steps into frame.

The fact that a Woody Allen film has never grossed more than $40 million is a statement....and it's a statement that I hate to make.

"MOST PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO THINK WHEN THEY GO TO A MOVIE."

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they sure don't want snappy dialogue to ruin their evening.

I realize there is a loyal following for Mr. Allen's film but it's just why to small.....and in my mind there's no real explanation.

$40 MILLION GROSS?????? HANGOVER 2 DID THAT IN ONE FREAKIN DAY.....AND IT WAS MINDLESS.

PIRATES HAS DONE 56 TRILLION AND IT'S BEYOND MINDLESS.

I sincerely hope that this movie becomes the highest grossing film of Woody Allen's 41 movies.....and I promise to do all I can to make that happen....

$50 MILLION PLUS..........a request to the movie gods......

Let's make it happen......

Thank you Woody for sharing your vision with us.

I'd like to call him.....does anyone have his cell number?

GO SEE THIS FILM AND THEN GIVE ME A CALL with the number.

Michael Timothy McAlevey